Did Koch fund the DLC?

[revolutionnow45]

Does someone have the info on this?

And what does that mean for our party?

Should we do something to take our party back from republican infiltrators?

[haikugal]

1. Very Good Question...

I'll be interested to see the answer.

[Donnachaidh]

2. I'd love to see breakdowns of EVERYONE who received money from those fascists.

BOTH sides.

And it should be shouted from the rooftops. EVERY politician that took money from them should be run out of town on a rail.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Yep. And we've known it for a long time.

http://www.democrats.com/node/7789

[revolutionnow45]

5. Thank you!!

As Bill Berkowitz writes, the Koch brothers have also been funding the Democratic Leadership Council.

According to SourceWatch, a project of the Center for Media & Democracy, the brothers are "leading contributors to the Koch family foundations, which supports a network of Conservative organizations and think tanks, including Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Manhattan Institute the Heartland Institute, and the Democratic Leadership Council."

Charles Koch co-founded the Cato Institute in 1977, while David helped launch Citizens for a Sound Economy in 1986.

This is no less stunning than if Scaife or the Coors family were funding the DLC. So do the Kochs just throw money at the DLC -- as long as the Council supports a free-market" (i.e. unrestricted/unregulated corporate power) agenda that the Kochs generally agree with. Or is it more than just that -- does this really buttress what Greens and other disaffected liberals contend -- that the DNC has just become a party of "Republicrats", thanks especially to the DLC? They would say that corporate backers like the rightwing/libertarian Kochs have co-opted the Democratic establishment -- a hostile takeover of (what was once) the opposition.

[HereSince1628]

6. And even if we didn't know, we knew the result...

Abandoned by a group wanting to provide "Democratic Leadership" headed towards the Right.

I'm sure that this administration wanted to hold the enemies of the people close. I'm absolutely sure of it.

[Amonester]

7. Yep. The kkkoch gawd-a-fee$ got the up-for-sale dems by the .... n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Damn! This thing, co-opting both parties, is undermining our Democracy.

[Octafish]

4. Damn Lotta Cowards

Taking money from a Koch. Disgusting.

"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run." — Elbert Hubbard

[revolutionnow45]

10. "A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run." — Elbert Hubbard

:rofl:

[CrossChris]

8. Did Andrew Cuomo get more money from Koch than Scott Walker?

I thought I saw that posted here somewhere today, now I can't find it.

[madfloridian]

17. Here you go. Yes, he got about double.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/7468

[LynneSin]

9. If they did they sucked at it - DLC is closed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Leadership_Council

[revolutionnow45]

12. Their work is complete

Give me one real democrat left in the US Congress.(don't tell me Kucinich-look at the lame distraction he is causing)

[Marr]

13. The DLC won.

They're in the White House and they control the national party. The name is meaningless and easily discarded.

[CrossChris]

14. But those polticians are still active. Don't see why DLC's closure would sever those connections.

I can't see Koch refraining from donating to conservative Democrats just because one of their organizations closed its doors. Blue Dogs still exist.

[TheKentuckian]

15. Closed? Please, relocated to 1600, relabeled into new Third Ways, running the DNC, and rocking on.

Don't play semantics here. The who's who of the organization are in the cabinet or getting plum assignments in "advisory" roles.

[revolutionnow45]

16. kick

:kick:

[999998th word]

18. YES